Next month, the space shuttle Endeavour will take off from Cape Canaveral to carry the final element of the International space Station up into orbit. When it returns to Earth, it will be prepared for its next destination: a museum.çIt will be 30 years since the first space shuttle, Columbia, took off on April 12, 1981. This was an event that was supposed to herald a new era when space travel would become routine, with 50 launches a year. Instead, the shuttle will be retired and, in future, US astronauts will have to use Russian rockets to reach the International Space Station. It is an ironic ending to the space rivalry of the Cold War years.
So, what went wrong
with America's dreams of space travel, and what's next for Nasa, the space agency that has no spacecraft?
So, what went wrong
with America's dreams of space travel, and what's next for Nasa, the space agency that has no spacecraft?
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